Speaking to The Alex Jones Show today,
presidential candidate Ron Paul commented on the controversy
surrounding his exclusion from a Fox News January 6th
presidential forum by encouraging supporters to keep up
the pressure on the network to reverse their decision
and slamming the network's claim of being fair and balanced
as "beyond a joke".

"People are outraged and a lot of
them are coming to our defense including the Republican
Party up there so we haven't heard the last word about
that yet," said Paul.

The Congressman identified the main reason
for his exclusion as Fox News' fear that he would express
strong anti-war opinions, which they see as a "threat"
when coming from the most conservative member of the house.

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"They have to realize that what the numbers
are and if it's hurting them, if it's not in their
interests I think they're in a bind, I don't think
they have any easy way out and they dug themselves
into this situation so hopefully they wake up and
realize that they have to come around to be much more
fair and balanced, it's gone beyond a joke for them
to advertise they're fair and balanced when they're
just the opposite," said the Congressman.

Discussing the broader success of the
campaign, Paul said, "Everybody's upbeat and they
wanna win but they are also very realistic to know what
is the future regardless of what's gonna happen....how
can we keep working this, how can we keep our group together....I
think we've really opened the eyes of a lot of people
so there's reason to be optimistic," said Paul.

The Congressman added that the New World
Order must be defeated not with weapons but with ideas
and that the movement which he is now the figurehead for
is much larger than he ever dreamed it would be.

"Most people thought that you'd
have to be part of the establishment to get money and
support but the supporters have proven that not only will
they work hard and go out and do the legwork that is necessary
but they'll also send in the money and they'll also be
very creative," added Paul.